This blog was set up in 2006 as a resource for parents of multiple birth children.
But it has moved on to include journalism, fiction, media requests and advice under the 'Write away' category as well as the odd bit of nonsense about my family and eating too much cake.
I'm the director of a small Midlands agency contributing features as well as commercial writing work, training and new media consultancy.
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Perhaps a meal out, a trip to the cinema, or a night enjoying the theatre. Neil joked we should go clubbing. Perhaps we could even do any of these things more than once.
The prospect of more enthusiastic romance reared its head.
Our girls are away with school until the end of the week. They've gone to an outward bound centre with the rest of the year.
EDUCATION writer Kim Thomas is working on a guide for parents whose children are starting or at primary school.
She has the following questions for parents and is interested in hearing from you if you would like to offer your views for consideration for use in the book:
1. How did you choose your child's school - what considerations did you take into account, what did you like about it when you first visited, did you have any reservations?
MUM bloggers are being asked to help publicise this video in the hunt for Madeleine McCann.
As the appeal slips further from the top of news agendas, the hope is that some momentum can be maintained.
The video is from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.
If you are interested in learning more about other missing children in the UK, and how you can help, please also check out Missingkids.co.uk.
Years ago I was to be found head down, effing and blinding, starting work before anyone else arrived and finishing after they'd long gone home. In my work in regional papers (I wanted to make it to editor or at least deputy editor level) I was known - by some at least - as a right old cow.
I remember telling reporters who presented a lack lustre list of what they were working on, that they were taking the piss, bawling at them on deadline that their spelling mistakes were unacceptable and printing out what I saw as substandard work to put big red rings around it to show them the error of their ways.
Erica and Alicehave passed the baton on this one, so here goes...1. What are your current obsessions?
As ever lots of things. Family and work, work and family. That's about it really. Blog wise, I'm still reeling from our Disney experience, and am blown away by the work of Camilla Chafer and Keris Stainton so far on our new travel blog, Havealovelytime.com.
2. Which item of clothes do you wear most often?
Just anything black, black and more black. If you want to know why, look here.
THE UK is sitting on a childhood obesity time bomb.
Our youngsters are now heavier than they have ever been and are putting on weight at an earlier age – before they even start school.
Not only are our children more likely to die younger through conditions linked with obesity, they are also falling ill younger, with 1,400 children in the UK already known to have been diagnosed with lifestyle-related type two diabetes.
Overweight children are more likely to become overweight or obese adults and face increased risks of diabetes, cancer, heart disease and stroke. They’re also prone to developing psychological problems including depression and low self-esteem, and face bullying.
According to recent research from the Earlybird Diabetes Study published in the Pediatrics Journal, one in four children aged four to five in England is now overweight.
And the government has forecast that by 2050, 60% of men and 50% of women could be obese.
THE first time I saw any of Emily and Melissa's friends with a mobile phone was at their eighth birthday party.
The two girls who brought them along didn't know how to make a call.
My daughters regularly ask for a phone as a present as a birthday or Christmas approaches. Now 10, they haven't got one yet.
The following is a post from Camilla Chafer on her blog about family-friendly gadgets and stuff, Technoglam. It has amazed me so I'm going to go away and find out more about the research, I'm wondering how big the poll was.
Camilla says she's also surprised by the figures and reports that 40 per cent of eight to 11-year-old girls are using a mobile phone every day, while 22 per cent of boys the same age are busy on their handsets.
I can't quite believe it - can you?
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